Re: Food stamps in Fairfax County
Posted by:
Still a leach
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Date: May 09, 2013 09:53AM
Very True Wrote:
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> I wonder Wrote:
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> > Very True Wrote:
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> > > When I got laid off from my good paying job,
> we
> > > had to use food stamps for about two years.
> The
> > > reason they take so long is, the food stamp
> > > coupons must match exactly what’s being
> > bought.
> > > We really hated using them, because the
> > cashiers
> > > have a special process for ringing people up
> > and
> > > everyone hates doing it. God, I am so glad to
> > be
> > > off them.
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> > Two years huh? fucking leach.
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> We didn’t have a choice, I literally went from
> working a job that paid 109K a year to working a
> security job for 7-days a week. This was during
> the economic crunch, plus we had just had a baby
> when I was laid off. We were on food stamps, we
> used coupons, and literally used what little money
> that was coming in, to get food at Dollar Tree.
> The severance checks were very low also, because I
> had been with that company only a year. On top of
> this, we got very little back on our Income tax.
> So it wasn’t like we were sitting home
> collecting unemployment.
So We all have to pay because you wanted to have a baby that you could not afford?
I guess maybe you should have saved up money when you had a good paying job..But that would be responsible and using common sense, too much to ask for these days.